Bag-holder.



G. L. LYON.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.26,19OB.

932, 1 5 1 Patented Au 24, 1909.

GEORGE L. LYON, 0F BAINBRIDGE, NEW YORK.

BAG-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 26, 1908. Serial No. 454,923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. LYON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ilainbridge, in the county of Ghenango and State of NewYork, have invented an Improvementin Bag-Holders, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to a bag holder for yieldingly supporting a bag andholding the same open while being filled, and the object thereof is theprovision of a bag holder of simple and inexpensive construction, in theuse of which the bags to be filled are held in place with their mouthsin preferably an inclined posit-ion, in which the bags may the morereadily be filled and this without the intervention of a hopper membersuch as is ordinarily employed.

In carrying out my invention, I preferably employ laterally yieldingspring upright members, a bracket slidably mounted on each of the saiduprights, means for yieldingly supporting each bracket and means securedto the said brackets for supporting a bag and holding the same openwhile being filled, as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved bag holder.Fig. 2 is a plan of the same and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation takencentrally and at right angles to the position of the device as shown inFig. 1.

Referring particularly to the drawings, 10 designates a base on whichthe parts composing the bag holder are supported. On this base 10 Ipreferably employ a pair of oppositely disposed uprights which are madeof sheet metal or other material having the requisite resilient orelastic property to automatically return to an initial position afterhaving been removed therefrom. The lower parts of the uprights indicatedat 11 extend upwardly from the base 10, and each upright in a suitableposition is preferably turned at a right angle on itself so that theupper portions 12 of the uprights lie substantially in the same plane,and these uprights may be connected to the base 10 by means of therivets 13 or otherwise. The upper extremity of each upright is providedwith a lug 14 having an eye or aperture 15 therein and on the upperportion 12 of each upright I employ a bracket comprising an uprightportion 16 and limb members 17 18 which latter are preferably turned atright angles to the upright portion 16 and are provided with suitablerecesses adapted to receive the said portion 12 of the upright memberand in which the bracket may slide thereon.

The outer end of the limb 18 is preferably up-turned as indicated at 19and is also provided with an eye or aperture adapted to receive one endof a spring 20, the other end of which is connected in the eye 15 of thelug 14 so that the bracket member is yieldingly supported by the saidspring 20 and slidable upon the upper portion 12 of the upright. To eachbracket a bar 21 is connected by means of rivets 22 or otherwise andeach of these bars is curved in the upper portion thereof and at itsinner end is provided with a curved support-arm 23 extending in oppositedirections and the support arms 23 are provided with pins 2e adapted topass through and secure a bag in position thereon; it being noted thatthe arms 23 are inclined to the horizontal so that when in position themouth of the bag is held at an inclination in order that as will beapparent, the operator may the more easily fill the bag with thematerial which it is to contain.

It may be assumed that the normal positions of the uprights of thehereinbefore described bag holder are as shown in dotted lines Fig. 1,and in the use of the device, the bag to be filled is placed between theuprights which are moved toward one another and the mouth of the bagfitted over the support-arm 23 and the uprights released, whereupon bytheir own action they will return as far as possible to their initialposition and in so doing, securely hold the bag in place while the sameis being filled.

I claim as my invention:

1. A bag holder comprising a suitable base, a pair of laterally yieldinguprights normally spread apart at their upper free ends and adapted tobe moved toward one another to engage and apply tension to the bag beingheld at the mouth thereof, and spring actuated bag engaging andsupporting devices connected to the upper free ends of said uprights andmovable longitudinally thereof, whereby a bag is supported in an openposition while being filled.

2. Abag holder comprising a suitable base, a pair of uprights normallyspread apart at their upper free ends and each composed of yieldingportions at the lower ends and substantially inflexible portions at theupper Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

ends and together laterally yielding from their normally spread apartposition toward one another for use under tension in holding a bag andkeeping the mouth thereof open, and spring actuated bag engaging and supporting devices connected to the up er free ends of said uprights andmovable ongitudinally thereof, whereby a bag is supported in an openposition while being filled.

In a bag holder, the combination with a suitable base, of a pair ofuprights each formed from a fiat bar of yielding material in which thelower portions of said bars are parallel with the edges of the base andadapted to yield under tension and the upper parts occupy a position atright angles to the lower parts and edgewise to the laterally yieldingaction so that said upper parts are substantially inflexible, and bagengaging and supporting devices connected to the up per free ends ofsaid uprights for supporting a bag in an open position while beingfilled.

4. In a bag holder, the combination with a suitable base, of a pair ofuprights each formed from a flat bar of yielding material in which thelower portions of said bars are parallel with the edges of the base andadapted to yield under tension and the upper parts occupy a position atright angles to the lower parts and edgewise to the laterally yieldingaction so that said upper parts are substantially inflexible, and springactuated bag engaging and supporting devices connected to the upper freeends of said uprights and movable longitudinally thereof, whereby a bagis supported in an open position while being filled.

5. In a bag holder, the combination with a I suitable base, of a pair ofuprights each formed from a fiat bar of yielding material in which thelower portions of said bars are parallel with the edges of the base andadapted to yield under tension and the upper parts occupy a position atright an les and for yielding under tension.

Signed by me this 18 day of September 1908.

GEO. L. LYON.

Vitnesses SEBAT B. I'IOLLENBACI-I, ERwIN RAMsDELL.

